Catharus Bicknelli Bird

Bicknell\'s Thrush / Catharus bicknelli

Catharus Bicknelli Bird

English Name:  Bicknell's Thrush
Latin Name:  Catharus bicknelli
Protonym:  Hylocichla aliciae bicknelli Proc.U.S.Natl.Mus. 4 p.377
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Catharus
Taxonomy Code:  bicthr
Type Locality:  near the summit of Slide Mountain, Ulster County, New York.
Author:  Ridgway
Publish Year:  1882
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CATHARUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush C. aurantiirostris) Gr. καθαρος katharos  pure, clean; alluding to the immaculate brown and white plumage of the Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush; "577. Catharus, Bp. (Turdus, p. Auct.) Rostrum Turdorum: pedes elongati, robusti: alae breves, rotundatae; remigum prima octavum aequante; tertia, quarta et quinta omnium longissimis: cauda brevis, rotundata.   America mer.  1.  *TURDUS immaculatus, Bp. Mus. Lugd. ex Caraccas.   Similis T. minoribus Amer. s. sed absque macularum vel suspicione. Rufo-olivaceus: subtus albus; pectore, lateribusque ardosiaceis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Catharus Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Av., 1 (1850), p. 278. Type, by monotypy, Turdus immaculatus Bonaparte = Turdus aurantiirostris Hartlaub." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 164).
Synon. Malacocichla.

bicknelli
Eugene Pintard Bicknell (1859-1925) US banker, botanist, ornithologist, founder member of the AOU (Catharus).